Former "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sierra is free to pursue her singing and acting career after a judge today lifted a ban on her being in front of cameras and microphones. ...more

April 15, 2009

Victor Miller should have returned the money, authorities say. ...more

April 1, 2009

Rapper T.I. was sentenced Friday to one year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to federal weapons charges after he tried to buy a stash of machine guns and silencers to protect himself after his best friend was killed. ...more

March 28, 2009

Clayton Maxwell watched as his sister's boyfriend and four cohorts put bandannas across their faces then armed themselves with hammers and a gun, he testified Thursday. ...more

September 5, 2008

The defense tries to undercut a key witness in the trial of a man accused in a Plant City home invasion that killed one person. ...more

September 4, 2008

A group of suspected drug users arrested in Denver this weekend with methamphetamine, guns and bulletproof vests made racist threats against Barack Obama but posed no true danger to the presidential candidate as he accepts the Democratic nomination here this week, federal authorities said Tuesday. ...more

August 27, 2008

Considering her singer daughter-in-law's well-known troubles with substance abuse and the law, it's no surprise that the outspoken Georgette Civil, Blake Fielder-Civil's mum, thinks Amy Winehouse ought to be in the big house. ...more

August 25, 2008

The suspected robber of a Walgreens pharmacy was arrested in about three hours on Tuesday. ...more

July 23, 2008

A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife after he was acquitted. ...more

May 11, 2008

"Her Last Death: A Memoir," by Susanna Sonnenberg (Scribner, $24) ...more

February 3, 2008